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Jian Qin, Zhenquan Zhang, Xuening Song, Shuting Huang, Yanjun Liu and Gang Xue
In order to enhance the power generation efficiency and reliability of wave energy converters (WECs), an enclosed inertial WEC with a magnetic nonlinear stiffness mechanism (nonlinear EIWEC) is proposed in this paper. A mathematical model of the nonlinea...
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Yang Yi, Ke Sun, Yongqian Liu, Gang Ma, Chuankai Zhao, Fukang Zhang and Jianhua Zhang
The wave-energy excitation of point absorbers is highly associated with their resonant movement, and harmonic characteristics are of increasing concern in affecting resonance. However, the commonly used linearized power take-off (PTO) systems underestima...
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Ali S. Haider, Kush Bubbar and Alan McCall
Achieving energy maximizing control of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) not only needs a comprehensive dynamic model of the system?including nonlinear hydrodynamic effects and nonlinear characteristics of Power Take-Off (PTO)?but to treat the entire system ...
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Yuan Zhang, Xuanyu Chen, Peng Xu, Xizeng Zhao, Ould el Moctar and Changqing Jiang
The development and utilization of wave energy, heralded as a potential leading source of clean energy worldwide, have garnered considerable attention from the global research community. Among the diverse array of wave energy converters (WECs), the raft-...
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Liang Sun, Zewang Yang, Mingsheng Chen and Fen Li
To investigate the overtopping and slamming phenomena that occur in the interactions between waves and oscillating surge wave energy converters (OSWECs), a two-dimensional numerical wave flume was established using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) soft...
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Timothy Vervaet, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Brecht De Backer, Kurt Stockman, Marc Vantorre and Peter Troch
Commercial wave energy exploitation will be realised by placing multiple wave energy converters (WECs) in an array configuration. A point-absorber WEC consists of a floating or submerged body to capture wave energy from different wave directions. This po...
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Dan Yu, Keyi Wang, Yeqing Jin, Fankai Kong, Hailong Chen and Can Yang
In this work, the hydrodynamic performance of a novel wave energy converter (WEC) configuration which combines a moonpool platform and a javelin floating buoy, called the moonpool?javelin wave energy converter (MJWEC), was studied by semianalytical, comp...
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Ali S. Haider, Ted K. A. Brekken and Alan McCall
An increase in wave energy converter (WEC) efficiency requires not only consideration of the nonlinear effects in the WEC dynamics and the power take-off (PTO) mechanisms, but also more integrated treatment of the whole system, i.e., the buoy dynamics, t...
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Shangyan Zou and Ossama Abdelkhalik
Wave energy converters (WECs) usually require reactive power for increased levels of energy conversion, resulting in the need for more complex power take-off (PTO) units, compared to WECs that do not require reactive power. A WEC without reactive power p...
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